It's March 25 in Australia and that means international iPad 2 online orders have begun going live... but with a 2-3 week estimate on shipping. Other online stores are also up now, like Canada and UK, but simply list iPad 2 as currently unavailable at the moment (that should change as 1am rolls around in those time zones -- though we still don't know if Canada will be PDT or EDT.)

We'll keep an eye on the shipping estimates in case anything changes. What's your local availability? Has anyone ordered yet?

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Just ordered an iPad 2 on the canadian apple store. It clearely says that it will ship in 3-4 weeks, with delivery 8-12 hours later. You can get that info in "acount", "order status". So I'll be expecting it somewhere at the end of April.

On the Canadian store, even at 1 AM exactly it wasn't available. I refreshed the page every ten seconds (literally) and at around 1:13 it finally allowed me to select it. But: it said that it would be AVAILABLE, not shipping, in two to three weeks.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks in advance!

I tried half an hour before switching 1 click on. That seemed to do the trick, but like above nothing in my order history - so I tried again and noted my order number this time. Still nothing in my order history - so fear I've ordered 2! Agh!

Not sure about placing order as I didnt want to get a third one. Still not showing up in order history though but as I said I have the order number printed for the second one so I should be good to go.

In UK now getting "An error has occurred during your session. Please return to the Store Menu to continue shopping." but am retrying. Dunno if it's a 1am thing but looking above it seems it could be another cause

According to Twitter using 1-click-order works. And it seems to - I now have my order number - however I'm dubious until I see confirmation. And looking at the small print I see that there's a 90 minute cooling off period so it seems that all I've managed is an order sometime after 2:50am

Yes, Apple germany also launching with 2-3 week wait. This is the fakest launch I have ever seen. They should have had the decency to at least have a few hundred for immediate sale to save face.
So except for a few thousand unit per country, there is no actual launch. They would have done better, by being honest about the shortages and delaying the launch outside of the US.
This launch was only good for a dark place where the "sun dont shine"...Trying to keep it decent in this forum :)

German store is also not live with ipad2, and it is past 1 AM there. By the looks of it Apple had never planned to sell a single ipad online with immediate delivery. frankly I find that phony. If they paint the tape al over the place with a big 1 AM store launch they better have actual merchandise available for shipping within 2 or 3 days. everything else is false advertising.
I will definitely not order anything if it may or may not ship in 3 weeks, and then ad up to 8 days of shipping.
Apple is just aiming for a cool news headline and long line up pictures, but they are completely unprepared and seem to care little that customers actually want to buy. Just gunning for the big headline
Had they cared, then they would have limited sales to 1 ipad per person, and weeded out Chinese gangs from buying up 10s of thousands of devices. This would not only have alleviated the demand pressure, but also dried up the rampant black market for ipads.
But hey, its Apple, and they never really cared for that, as long as the new device is thinner and faster as the last one Steve is happy...

New Zealand was meant to be first in the international pecking order as it is a minimum of 2 hours ahead of eastern Ozzie time. Interesting that Jamc888 says they went live early. Someone was a bit tardy in mission control because they didn't update the NZ store till 2:20am. Shipping for all products was given as 2-3 weeks. Order confirmation says 15th April.

This is worrying about the 2-3 week wait considering we have not even had a chance to order yet. I have seen pictures of Orange staff unloading a decent stock to one of their shops so there may be more shop stock than everyone is anticipating.

I live in Oslo Norway, and 5 hours ago, I got a phonecall from the premium reseller Humac, (We dont have actual Apple Stores here) that they were haddy to CONFIRM my 64Gig Black 3g iPad2, and that I can pick this up tomorrow between 5 and 8!
Seems I can call myself lucky, considering all the hardship everyone in the US seems to be having. The iPad has been available for preorders here since the Apple Keynote(!)
Seems all the norwegian resellers have been using preorders. Is this not the case anywhere else??

And if there are no Chinese gans to buy up all the supply and ship it to Asia, you might actually find one in a store.. If apple would limit it to 1 pad per customer and record the name of every sale, I bet that there would not even be a shortage...

I is all a gigantic hoax. Apple probably sent 10k ipad 2 to each of the countries to be sold in the first few hours in store, and maybe a handful to be sold online, just so they can claim it was launched on MAR 25, and the launch as a big success. And then they will string online and store shoppers along for weeks without any decent supply volume.

@Australian brothers & sisters....
Can you provide any tips to us Canadians who are planning to purchase an iPad 2 online tonight? Tips on how to ensure your order gets processed for sure??
Can you for instance fill out anything in the purchasing process before the planned 1AM opening??
Anything would be greatly appreciated!

You're not able to fill in anything until the store actually says it is available and you choose a model to continue. The best you can do is make sure your account info is all udated with your address and payment info so that as soon as they become availalbe you can select the model/extra acessories and process.